Travel Blogs from New Zealand South Island

... it was a nice surprise to find a Japanese girl up on Wednesday night. Rie speaks quite good English considering she's only been in NewZealand for 2 months, and I helped her with the CV that she was writing. She said I was a good teacher! She was ...

... more than a seagull or an oyster catcher. "That's a penguin isn't it?" she said, and she was right. Stood upright on a rock island just metres in front of us was a Fiordland crested, yellow eyed penguin. I'd seen a few of them on the Milford Sound ...

... some nice places for the proceeding nights (Hilltop in Papatowai and Freestone Backpackers in Manapouri) so that they'd continue to enjoy the NewZealand experience without me. As for me, I had to pack my things together ahead of my latest jaunt to Oz, ...

Thanks to our great planning we spent our second day in the van driving back into Christchurch so that we could pick up some food! That done we headed in the direction of Mt Cook. The beauty of NZ for driving compared to Australia is that everything is ...